Katarzyna
Betlińska

Places

As we walk through the capital each day, we pass countless plaques reading: “A PLACE SANCTIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF POLES WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY’S FREEDOM.” It is vital to know and remember that these are not mere symbolic gestures. The streets, courtyards, and lawns of Warsaw became, by tragic necessity, burial sites for those brutally murdered. It is enough to note that after the war, more than 12 tons of human ashes of the victims of Nazism were brought to the Wola cemetery.

Works dimensions 70x100 cm, UV print
(Sulejówek 2024)